Circulation of Knowledge in the 17th-Century Dutch Republic
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learning, letters, Netherlands, networks
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browse and analyze around 20,000 letters written by and sent to 17th century scholars who lived in the Dutch Republic
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Epidemic Disease in London
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disease, essays, London, urban
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Six papers on epidemic disease in London from the 14th to 19th centuries.
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Golf in Scotland 1457-1744
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exhibits, Scotland, sports
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web exhibit showcasing of some of the earliest sources for the history of golf in Scotland
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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
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crime, exhibits, medicine, punishment
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A major, multi-disciplinary research project investigating the meanings, treatment, and uses of the criminal corpse.
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Heading West: Mapping the Territory 1540-1900
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Americas, exhibits, exploration, maps
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online exhibition presenting impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
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correspondence, digital, networks
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Case studies and interactive visualization tools of 18th-century social networks.
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Nation of shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s
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exhibits, print culture, trade
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Website of a 2001 Bodleian exhibition, focusing on the development of printed trade cards and similar materials
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People, Property and Charity: The Clothworkers’ Company, 1500-1688
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charity, guilds, London, trades
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the benefactors, property acquisitions, bequests and charitable activity of The Clothworkers’ Company in the City of London, late 15th to late 17th century
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REED Patrons and Performances
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drama, place
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Resource on professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom
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SHALT: Shakespearean London Theatres
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London, public history, Shakespeare, theatres
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project to increase public awareness of sites of the London theatres of Shakespeare’s time
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
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digital, networks
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network.
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Staging and Representing the Scottish Renaissance Court
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drama, performing arts, practice, Scotland
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A project to stage Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates as part of a wider investigation of the Scottish Renaissance and Stewart court
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The Development of British Children’s Literature in the 18th-Century
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c18th, education, hypertext, literature
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a compendium of influential texts, authors, and scholars that helped shape the development of children’s literature during this period
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The Gentleman’s Magazine: the 18th Century Answer to Google
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c18th, exhibits, learning, society
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online exhibition of the University of Otago Library collection of the Gentleman’s Magazine (1731-1866), ‘an inexhaustible mine of information for scholars of eighteenth century life’.
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The Mind is a Collection
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ideas, material culture, memory, objects
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The Mind Is a Collection is a born-digital museum of early modern cognitive models.
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Toward A National Cartography: American Mapmaking 1782-1800
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Americas, c18th, exhibits, maps, USA
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a virtual tour of the Harvard Map Collection 2011 exhibition Toward a National Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800
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Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, 1550-1700 (TIDE)
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encounters, identity, migration, travel
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TIDE aims to investigate how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity.
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Virtual Pauls Cross Website
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performance, preaching, re-creations, religion
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The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project enables us to experience the delivery of John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622 as an event that unfolds over time on a particular occasion in Paul’s Churchyard
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